Monthly Archives: February 2010

Yet Another Mea Culpa

February 21, 2010 – 2:36 pm

Tiger Woods appeared before the TV cameras to apologize for his philandering ways. His mother was in attendance. His wife was understandably absent. His statement didn’t address the night of the crash outside his Florida house. He unequivocally denied his wife swung a golf club at him without explaining why he fled in such haste. […]

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IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith – Chapter 1

February 21, 2010 – 2:03 pm

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]

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Letter From the Right 2-18

February 18, 2010 – 12:14 pm

The Big Buster sent this letter. WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH? “My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed. Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this […]

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Gil Scott Heron

February 17, 2010 – 8:13 pm

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED is a little dated, but I still buy it. To view this radical golden oldie go to this URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsO4u46wIlk For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2010/02/11/music/winter-in-america-gil-scott-heron.htm

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A Fistful of Freedom Fries

February 17, 2010 – 8:05 pm

The Vancouver Winter Olympics was officially marred by the untimely death of a Georgian luge competitor. The American news stations have harped on this tragedy as well as the lack of snow and the French language as signs of a failed Olympics, while at the same time USA USA USAing about female downhill Vonn winning […]

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